Ann Romney makes pitch to women voters

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

(CBS News) MOLINE, Ill. - On the campaign trail, Ann Romney regularly talks about being a wife and mother, usually steering clear of policy or voting demographics. But on Sunday, she made a specific pitch to women voters as her husband Mitt seeks to lessen President Obama's current double-digit advantage among them.

Speaking to about 200 people at a pancake breakfast in Moline, Ann Romney said she was "really upset" with Obama's policies and added, "I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy."

"Women are talking about jobs, women are talking about deficit spending," she continued. "Thank you, women. We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why we're upset and what we've got to do to fix things."

In his remarks, Mitt Romney echoed his wife's sentiments, describing the particular challenges that mothers he has met on the campaign trail have described to him.

"You've got moms that are driving their kids to school and practice after school and other appointments and wonder how they can afford putting gasoline in the car, at the same time putting food on the table night after night. The American people are struggling," he said.

Women voters have shown more loyalty than men to Obama, particularly as the recent debate over contraception has engulfed the GOP. A recent Fox News poll showed women preferring Obama 49 percent to 37 percent in a head-to-head matchup with Romney. Men favored Romney 48 percent to 43 percent for Obama.

[Tigmit]

a vote for any of the republicans is like a vote against yourself. Unless you are a rich white male. Sounds like the 1700s.

[Zann-Zel]

by RetRanger CSM March 19, 2012 2:07 PM EDT
Not too bad - waiting on my Tri-Care referral to the "Arterial Surgeon" so they can cut on my leg -
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CBS is slow as Christmas putting up the replies today!

Don't wait on Tri-Care, call and bug them every day till you get what you need! : )

[Zann-Zel]

Bye Ranger!
Have a good day out there!
; )

[Zann-Zel]

by TX-Ed March 19, 2012 10:06 AM EDT
LOL, he is really tying to let us know he is a moron
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Good Mornin Ed! ; )

I agree Romney is a first class Moron!

[Zann-Zel]

I have a pitch for women voters to - Vote OUT every Republican!

Every single one - they obviously need a very strong message!

[Zann-Zel]

We'll see.
In the words of Obama - "Good Luck" : )

[ProgressNow]

Romney: "I love women...some of my best friends are women...my Mom was a woman. I grew up with women...my Dad married eight of them."

[TX-Ed]

LOL, he is really tying to let us know he is a moron,he likes women, or he is trying to convince us he is not gay...

[omnibus66]

Hey guys, don't be so rough on her. She is, after all, a job creator. If she didn't have her two Cadillacs, her chauffeur would be out of a job.

[ladyang]

Another clueless, uneducated female morman they ley off the compound to speak to some other ignorant women. STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN - NOW!!!!!!!

[Zann-Zel]

STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN - NOW!!!!!!!
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..by voting OUT every single Republican!

[greco99-2009]

The deeper issue here is that Romney's religion tells him that women should be entirely servile to men, and are entirely excluded from all leadership aspects of church and the workplace.

They are one small step up from the taliban with regards to how they see the role of women in society.

[greco99-2009]

For most of its existence, Mormonism was one of the most racist religions imaginable - central to church doctrine was the principle that non-whites are fundamentally inferior and ineligible for participation in pretty much all aspects of the church.

Even though that changed to some extent around 1980 - Mitt Romney consistently supported and never questioned that doctrine.

Oh yeah, and Mitt once said that his dad 'marched with Martin Luther King', which was later widely debunked as yet another baldfaced Mitt Romney lie.

[nearl451]

The most beneficial effect that Ann Romney could have on her husbands campaign is to get him to stop talking about social conservative issues.

Mitt's supposed forte continues to be his business managment skills, not his social conservatism. If he gets into social conservatism,then he has to continually backtrack all his positions while Governor of Mass. , etc.

It makes him look weak....AND it is not needed to win the nomination.

[greco99-2009]

Mitt has no real constructive business skills and has no experience with economic planning at the governmental level.

He was a corrupt corporate raider whose specialty was looting companies by taking over their boards, and then draining everything including pension funds....

[greco99-2009]

Under Obama's leadership the stock markets have *doubled*.

How can Mitt run against this - maybe Mitt's only path forward is more lies...

[myth1958]

Ann Romney is late coming to the table, silent, as far as I know, about Limbaugh's distasteful remarks and mute about the contraceptive brouhaha her husband's campaign is hammering at like all the rest of the GOP. Is this tepid appeal for votes going to work? No more than the efforts of Mitt, who also was largely silent about Limbaugh and women's rights. Since this year women, Hispanics and Blacks are all apparently expendable to Republican campaigners, it looks unlikely women will rally behind Ann today, tomorrow or even next week.